Accession number:
PML 79108
Published:
Impressum Florentiae [i.e. Brescia, Italy] : & accuratissime castigatum op[er]a & impensa Leonardi de Arigis de Gesoriaco [i.e. Bernardinus de Misintis], Die decimo augusti MID [10 August 1499].
Description:
[212] leaves ; 32 cm (fol.)
Credit Line:
Bequest of Curt F. Bühler, 1985.
Notes:
Title from half-title page, leaf a1r.
The imprint (from the colophon, leaf M3v) is fictitious; printed at Brescia by Bernardinus de Misintis. Cf. BM 15th cent.
Printed in Misintis's types 1:110R and 9:102Gk.
Signatures: a⁸ b-q⁶ r⁸ s-u⁶ x⁴ y⁸ z⁶ A-L⁶ M⁴: 212 leaves (M4 blank).
Paper format: Chancery folio.
Edited by Alexander Sartius.
Includes translations from the Greek to Latin by Poliziano.
1 column, 46 lines. Capital spaces, most with guide letters.
For contents, see Bod-inc.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 31.1 x 21 cm.
Binding:
Early Italian cartonnage boards (31.5 x 21.5 cm), sewn on 3 supports; rebacked(?). Plain paper fly leaves. Manuscript title on fore edge.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: Minimal contemporary notations in text.
Provenance:
Castaldo di Alessandria, inscription: "Castaldi Alex[andri]ni" (leaf a1r and a3r); Libreria Antiquaria Hoepli, booklabel (inside front cover); Curt F. Bühler (1905-1985), Inc. 45, purchased at H. Saba (Trieste) for Lire 360, July 1931; Pierpont Morgan Library, bequest of Curt F. Bühler, 1985.
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